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benj111yesterday at 2:52 PM1 replyview on HN

TBF, do we actually know how goto the statement was intended to be pronounced?

It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....


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IAmBroomyesterday at 6:18 PM

Yes, there is only one reasonable pronunciation of the Fortran code word which is an amalgam of the English words "go to".

GIF is an initialism, with no comparable basis.